Traditional Maasai Food: Blood and Milk
To a westerner, though, traditional eating for the Maasai may seem distinctly unorthodox.That’s because a traditional Maasai diet not only includes, but primarily relies upon, both cow’s milk and cow’s blood.
In Maasai culture, cattle are highly valued. The size of your herd indicates your status in the community, and accumulating animals rather than consuming them is common practice.
That means that milk plays a huge role in a traditional Maasai diet. Drunk raw (or soured), drunk in tea, or turned into butter (which is especially important as a food for infants), milk is a part of almost every meal for Maasai herders.
Raw beef is also consumed, but much more fascinating (and possibly a little off-putting to the western palate) is the tradition of drinking raw blood, cooked blood, and blood-milk mixtures.
Blood is obtained by nicking the jugular artery of a cow precisely, allowing for blood-letting that doesn’t kill the animal. Mixed blood and milk is used as a ritual drink in special celebrations, or given to the sick. Of course blood and milk aren’t the only things Maasai eat; the diet has always been supplemented with tubers, honey, and foraged plants that are most often used in soups and stews.
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